OTTAWA—An advocacy group for those who reveal wrongdoing says it cannot support a new task force looking at the federal whistleblowing regime because it lacks someone with “lived experience” as an actual whistleblower.
In a letter to Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, Whistleblowing Canada Research Society president Pamela Forward calls the absence a “shocking omission.”
The group, which works to advance education and understanding of the whistleblowing phenomenon, also raises concerns about the independence of the task force, given that four of the nine members are current or former employees of various levels of government.
Co−chair Suzanne Craig is the integrity commissioner for the City of Vaughan in Ontario, while fellow co−chair Mary McFadyen served as ombudsman and public interest disclosure commissioner for Saskatchewan….